The last park we visited was Lassen. We stopped at the vents. If you enjoy the smell of hot sulfur you would like this steamy spot! I took a little video of one vent but I don’t know how to post those. They whistle and steam like your teapot, but don’t smell as nice! The vents have been moving around since I visited last, too. We can no longer walk the trail among them and it looks like they might even undermine the road one of these days. The volcano is suppose to be dormant (that’s not extinct!) but it still reminds us that it’s hot down there. :O
We’re home again now and have been spending the afternoon shooing the deer out of the yard. They have pretty much eaten off every plant out there. All my mums are gone, they even ate grandmother’s Christmas cactus that i thought would be okay. Guess we won’t get any flowers again this year. I’m sure it will come back, but I think I’m going to find an old fashioned wrist rocket and do my best to discourage them. :angry:

And around Lake Tahoe. This is Emerald Bay on the north west side of the lake (I think). Very pretty. It really is a beautiful spot. Half in California and half in Nevada.

Over the nearly 10,000′ Tioga pass and down into the desert we visited Mono Lake. It has some fantastic mineral formations but the shore is fragile so I did not venture near. A big blue spot in the sands.

…looking like a couple of rough and ragged tourists after a few days in the trailer! 😀 That’s Half Dome in the background. I’m holding Cori’s leash but the nice European man who took our picture didn’t get her in. We took theirs in return. There was a lot of that going on, as you might guess. This park is a photographers dream.

We went to the fair in Dixon, Lambtown last weekend and after that we decided to take the last opportunity this fall to see some of California. We visited Randy’s step Mom in Saucelito by the bay, then my brother in Cool, then Randy’s Uncle in Angel’s Camp and then made our way via old highway 49 and the Gold country to Yosemite. We spent two days there. I have not been since I was a child so it was all new to me again. Breathtaking! You know pictures just do not have the impact, but I’m posting some anyway.
This is El Capitan.

What a delightful surprise! Who should come to visit us in the booth at OFFF but Hazel Rose herself! :)She brought her parents, of course, and we were happy to meet them as well. Hazel was not named after myself and my sister Rosy but I think we are still going to adopt her! 😀 She is just a cutie and gave me the biggest smile. It’s not showing here so big but that’s only because she had not yet decided if it was okay to be quite that far from Mom and Dad. :O
We had a lovely visit with the Nichols and met many other friends this weekend. Many we had only ‘met’ previously on-line. It’s always fun to meet face to face people you have been talking to on-line. We got a lot of feed-back from weavers who have our looms and were able to introduce them to many who had not seen them before.
We also shopped among the other booths for luscious fibers and yarns, watched the spinning competitions, visited the animals in the barns, and the parking lot fleece sale which is always a big temptation. I resisted but Rosy wasn’t quite able to! :laugh:
The volunteers who organized the show did a wonderful job and it was bigger than ever this year. These people work so hard… and it is a hard job!… but the show reflects their efforts and if you have never been it is certainly worth the trip. If you are at all able to make it, do go next year, you won’t be sorry!

We had a new wheel cover made for the 5th wheel. If you see this heading north on I-5 You’ll know it’s us on our way to Canby, Oregon and the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. It’s going to be a lot of fibering fun! Talked Sis into going with us, which was very clever of me as she also cooks! 😀
I think I have everything packed up and ready to go. but Himself thought so, too, and was taking me on a ‘last’ tour of the shop when he found five sets of Tiny Weaver Looms which should have been in the trailer already, still sitting on the shelf in the stock room.

We will be on our way early tomorrow, tho. Hope to see you there!

I got the urge to bake cookies today! Must be a sign of fall! Can’t remember the last time my kitchen smelled like cinnamon and ginger! 😀 Himself has tested and tested to be sure they were safe to eat and it seems they are. I got this recipe on StumbleUpon, the first really useful thing I’ve found there. But I also worked on my rugs and did my duty in the loom shop. Found the woven mittens but I’ll be darned if I can find the Christmas stockings I made for that WeaveZine article last winter. Frustrating, to say the least! I wanted to take them to the shows end of the month. OFFF and Lambtown. Oh well. 😛
Randy spent the afternoon putting up the new siding. It kind of unifies our rambling domain. And it’s looking good.
We’ll soon be raking leaves, I betcha. Hope you’re having a lovely September!

It really is fall!!! :O Are we ready? Dunno about you but I don’t think we ever are. The asters are pretty, tho, aren’t they?
We’re making looms. If you are going to be at OFFF in Canby this month or Lambtown in Dixon next month, do come see us! We’ll be there! 🙂

We’ve had a rather noisy week. Today it finally got on my nerves and I went out and got a picture of this guy in the old cedar off the kitchen porch, raising a loud & rather shrill racket. I could not see the problem until my Robin (the cat version) wandered over and rubbed my ankles. I was just guessing but I scooped him up and took him inside with me and, sure enough, a few minutes later the Flicker shut up and flew off. He hasn’t gone far, tho I still here him periodically. And I think part of the noise has been territorial as we have also had a pileated wood pecker in the yard this week. I think they’re duking it out over who gets the punky cottonwood trees! And on top of that several evenings ago there was a red tailed hawk flying laps and screeching. He only stayed that night and the next morning. At least I haven’t heard him since. But come to think of it, I haven’t heard that really annoying Pine squirrel lately, either! He’s been chewing up the green cones in the Ponderosa pine over the house and making a heck of a mess. I would not shed tears if he went to dinner with the hawk! :plain: :satisfied: